How To Install ioping on Fedora 34

ioping is Simple disk I/O latency monitoring tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ioping on Fedora 34.

What is ioping

ioping lets you monitor I/O latency in real time. It shows disk latency in the same way as ping shows network latency.

We can use yum or dnf to install ioping on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ioping.

Install ioping on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ioping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ioping

Install ioping on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ioping using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ioping

How To Uninstall ioping on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ioping package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ioping

ioping Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ioping
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/687484723600a74fb170a02bb754bf55172b54
/usr/share/doc/ioping
/usr/share/doc/ioping/README.md
/usr/share/doc/ioping/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/ioping
/usr/share/licenses/ioping/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/ioping.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ioping on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.